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Self-mixing interference effects in orthogonally polarized dual-frequency Nd:YAG lasers at different feedback levels

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The self-mixing interference effects are investigated in birefringence dual-frequency Nd:YAG lasers at different optical feedback levels. For weak feedback level, both of the intensities of the two modes are sinusoidally modulated by external cavity length with a feedback period of half laser wavelength. While these two modes can only coexist in a part of feedback period at moderate feedback level, i.e., one mode reaches its maximum intensity, the other one extinguishes. At high feedback level, complete polarization switching (one mode oscillating, the other one extinguishing) between two polarized modes is observed, and every switching corresponds to quarter-wavelength variation of external cavity length. Furthermore, two feedback schemes, i.e., isotropic optical feedback (IOF) and polarized optical feedback (POF) are taken into account. The theoretical analysis based on a model of two-mode-coupled laser is presented, which is in good agreement with experimental results. Our results can advance the research of self-mixing interferometer of orthogonally polarized dual-frequency lasers.

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Tan, Y., Zhang, S., Ren, Z. et al. Self-mixing interference effects in orthogonally polarized dual-frequency Nd:YAG lasers at different feedback levels. Appl. Phys. B 95, 731–737 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-009-3468-1

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